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New comment by basedbertram in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"

basedbertram — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:58:59 +0000

Fun experience, but the forced rotation after a certain number of cuts diminishes it.

New comment by basedbertram in "Zuckerberg's internal emails rendered as Facebook Messenger"

basedbertram — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 02:39:34 +0000

There seems to be an issue with the messages sidebar snapping back to the top whenever a thread is selected. Pretty tedious to scroll down each time.

New comment by basedbertram in "Discrete Mathematics – An Open Introduction, 4th edition"

basedbertram — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 19:26:35 +0000

> A PDF of the book will be made available by August 15th.

On the sidebar:

> PDF coming soon

New comment by basedbertram in "Linear Algebra Done Right – 4th Edition"

basedbertram — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 18:22:59 +0000

So did you read through Strang and then read Axler, or did you try to work through both of them at the same time?

New comment by basedbertram in "An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in Python"

basedbertram — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 18:57:11 +0000

> This is, as a ML researcher, exactly where I'm at (in belief).

As an ML researcher myself, I'm glad to see other researchers maintaining a level-headed approach amidst the noise.

New comment by basedbertram in "What is a transformer model? (2022)"

basedbertram — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 19:40:32 +0000

There's a newer version of [4]: http://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/annotated-transformer/

New comment by basedbertram in "What is a transformer model? (2022)"

basedbertram — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 19:36:32 +0000

From looking at the video probably someone who has good working knowledge of PyTorch, familiarity with NLP fundamentals and transformers, and somewhat of a working understanding of how GPT works.

New comment by basedbertram in "Killing Community"

basedbertram — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:22:36 +0000

In my experience, you have to wade through too many unnecessary posts to find anything useful on 4chan.

New comment by basedbertram in "YOLOv6: Redefine state-of-the-art for object detection"

basedbertram — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 12:05:09 +0000

> But note that YOLOv7 doesn't meant to be a successor of yolo family, 7 is just a magic and lucky number. Instead, YOLOv7 extend yolo into many other vision tasks, such as instance segmentation, one-stage keypoints detection etc..

Are you kidding me?

New comment by basedbertram in "YOLOv6: Redefine state-of-the-art for object detection"

basedbertram — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 10:43:13 +0000

At the very least v4 has a paper attached to it. The authors of v5 have claimed that they'll release a paper at some point, but it has never materialized. It doesn't seem like v6 even makes that promise.

New comment by basedbertram in "Why Are Topre Keyboards So Expensive?"

basedbertram — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 00:50:42 +0000

Yeah, pretty interesting! I had no idea there were all of these different offerings for the switches.

New comment by basedbertram in "Why Are Topre Keyboards So Expensive?"

basedbertram — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 22:42:22 +0000

Oh wow, do people really bring mechanical keyboards to the office? I thought that was generally considered a no-no.

New comment by basedbertram in "Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website"

basedbertram — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 19:20:59 +0000

Holy cow, that's incredible

New comment by basedbertram in "How to rapidly improve at any programming language (2016)"

basedbertram — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 19:35:58 +0000

I remember hearing about his MIT Challenge. This answer on Quora from an MIT student highlights some of the issues with that challenge https://www.quora.com/How-do-MIT-students-and-professors-fee...

In the book does he reflect on any of this, or is it based on the MIT challenge at all?